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UPDATE: Morgan Spurlock (9/10/06; Film & History, 11/8/06-11/12/06)

updated: 
Wednesday, August 23, 2006 - 9:58pm
Periart21_at_aol.com

 Call for Papers=20
The Documentary Tradition: =20
Contemporary Documentary Maker =E2=80=93 Morgan Spurlock
The Documentary Tradition - 2006 Film and History Conference
Dallas, Texas, United States

8th=E2=80=9312th November 2006
Deadline now extended to 10th September 2006
The Documentary Tradition and its many permutations will be the topic of th=
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Fall, 2006 Film and History Conference. =20
Proposals are now being accepted for The Documentary Tradition looking=20
specifically at the contemporary documentary maker Morgan Spurlock.
Listed below are some suggestions for possible proposals, but all other=20
perspectives and aspects will be considered.

CFP: Jewish Classical Musicians (10/1/06; PCA/ACA, 4/4/07-4/7/07)

updated: 
Wednesday, August 23, 2006 - 9:58pm
JewishStudiesPCA_at_aol.com

JEWISH CLASSICAL MUSICIANS
 
 
 
The Jewish Studies Area of the Popular Culture Association is organizing at
least one panel on Jewish Classical Musicians for the 2007 conference of the
ACA/PCA in Boston, Massachusetts, April 4-7, 2007.
 
Jewish musicians have influenced classical music almost since its inception.
More modern composers include such masters as Felix Mendelssohn, Gustav
Mahler, Jacques Offenbach, Leonard Bernstein, and Aaron Copland. Modern classical
performers include Arthur Rubenstein, Isaac Stern, Jascha Heifetz, Vladimir
Horowitz, Wladyslaw Szpilman (The Pianist), Beverly Sills (nee Belle Miriam

CFP: Jewish Classical Musicians (10/1/06; PCA/ACA, 4/4/07-4/7/07)

updated: 
Wednesday, August 23, 2006 - 9:58pm
JewishStudiesPCA_at_aol.com

JEWISH CLASSICAL MUSICIANS
 
 
 
The Jewish Studies Area of the Popular Culture Association is organizing at
least one panel on Jewish Classical Musicians for the 2007 conference of the
ACA/PCA in Boston, Massachusetts, April 4-7, 2007.
 
Jewish musicians have influenced classical music almost since its inception.
More modern composers include such masters as Felix Mendelssohn, Gustav
Mahler, Jacques Offenbach, Leonard Bernstein, and Aaron Copland. Modern classical
performers include Arthur Rubenstein, Isaac Stern, Jascha Heifetz, Vladimir
Horowitz, Wladyslaw Szpilman (The Pianist), Beverly Sills (nee Belle Miriam

CFP: Jewish Classical Musicians (10/1/06; PCA/ACA, 4/4/07-4/7/07)

updated: 
Wednesday, August 23, 2006 - 9:58pm
JewishStudiesPCA_at_aol.com

JEWISH CLASSICAL MUSICIANS
 
 
 
The Jewish Studies Area of the Popular Culture Association is organizing at
least one panel on Jewish Classical Musicians for the 2007 conference of the
ACA/PCA in Boston, Massachusetts, April 4-7, 2007.
 
Jewish musicians have influenced classical music almost since its inception.
More modern composers include such masters as Felix Mendelssohn, Gustav
Mahler, Jacques Offenbach, Leonard Bernstein, and Aaron Copland. Modern classical
performers include Arthur Rubenstein, Isaac Stern, Jascha Heifetz, Vladimir
Horowitz, Wladyslaw Szpilman (The Pianist), Beverly Sills (nee Belle Miriam

CFP: Jewish Mythology (10/1/06; PCA/ACA, 4/4/06-4/7/06)

updated: 
Wednesday, August 23, 2006 - 9:58pm
JewishStudiesPCA_at_aol.com

JEWISH MYTHOLOGY
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The Jewish Studies Area of the Popular Culture Association is organizing at=20
least one panel on Jewish Mythology for the 2007 conference of the ACA/PCA i=
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Boston, Massachusetts, April 4-7, 2007.
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>From Lillith to the Golem, Jewish mythology has been an important part of=20
Jewish life. The story of the Golem is considered by some to be part of the=
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inspiration for Mary Shelley=E2=80=99s Frankenstein. =20
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Presentation proposals should examine the history and the significance of=20
Jewish mythology on Jewish culture and non-Jewish culture, especially in the=
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United States.
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CFP: Jewish Mythology (10/1/06; PCA/ACA, 4/4/06-4/7/06)

updated: 
Wednesday, August 23, 2006 - 9:58pm
JewishStudiesPCA_at_aol.com

JEWISH MYTHOLOGY
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The Jewish Studies Area of the Popular Culture Association is organizing at=20
least one panel on Jewish Mythology for the 2007 conference of the ACA/PCA i=
n=20
Boston, Massachusetts, April 4-7, 2007.
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>From Lillith to the Golem, Jewish mythology has been an important part of=20
Jewish life. The story of the Golem is considered by some to be part of the=
=20
inspiration for Mary Shelley=E2=80=99s Frankenstein. =20
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Presentation proposals should examine the history and the significance of=20
Jewish mythology on Jewish culture and non-Jewish culture, especially in the=
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United States.
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UPDATE: D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus (9/10/06; Film & History, 11/8/06-11/12/06)

updated: 
Wednesday, August 23, 2006 - 9:58pm
hmm160_at_psu.edu

Please feel free to forward and cross-post.

CFP: D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus

Film & History Conference: The Documentary Tradition
8-12 November, 2006, Dolce Conference Center, Dallas, TX
NEW Deadline: September 10, 2006

I am seeking abstracts and panel proposals about the works of D.A.Pennebaker
and Chris Hegedus. Presentations in this area can cover a variety of topics,
including their signature cinema verite style, the politics of their
documentaries, their representations of music and musicians, and others. Of
particular interest is presentations on Al Franken: God Spoke and The War
Room.

CFP: Conference for Medieval Studies (grad) (10/15/06; 2/23/07-2/24/07)

updated: 
Wednesday, August 23, 2006 - 9:58pm
Karen Robinson

The fifth annual Conference for Medieval Studies, a graduate student conference
sponsored by Comitatus, the Purdue Medieval Studies group, will be held at
Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana on February 23-24, 2007. The theme
for this year's conference is "On the Edge: Representations of Liminality in
Medieval Europe."

Patricia Clare Ingham, Indiana University, Bloomington, will be the plenary
speaker for this year's conference.

CFP: Conference for Medieval Studies (grad) (10/15/06; 2/23/07-2/24/07)

updated: 
Wednesday, August 23, 2006 - 9:58pm
Karen Robinson

The fifth annual Conference for Medieval Studies, a graduate student conference
sponsored by Comitatus, the Purdue Medieval Studies group, will be held at
Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana on February 23-24, 2007. The theme
for this year's conference is "On the Edge: Representations of Liminality in
Medieval Europe."

Patricia Clare Ingham, Indiana University, Bloomington, will be the plenary
speaker for this year's conference.

CFP: Documentary (11/1/06; PCA/ACA, 4/4/07-4/7/07)

updated: 
Wednesday, August 23, 2006 - 9:57pm
hmm160_at_psu.edu

Please feel free to forward and cross-post.

CFP: Documentary

Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association
April 4-7, 2007, Boston, MA
Deadline: 1 November 2006

I am seeking papers, abstracts, and panel proposals for the documentary area
of the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association conference
to be held April 4-7, 2007, at the Boston Marriott Copley Place in Boston,
MA.

CFP: Documentary (11/1/06; PCA/ACA, 4/4/07-4/7/07)

updated: 
Wednesday, August 23, 2006 - 9:57pm
hmm160_at_psu.edu

Please feel free to forward and cross-post.

CFP: Documentary

Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association
April 4-7, 2007, Boston, MA
Deadline: 1 November 2006

I am seeking papers, abstracts, and panel proposals for the documentary area
of the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association conference
to be held April 4-7, 2007, at the Boston Marriott Copley Place in Boston,
MA.

CFP: Kirk Douglas (10/1/06; PCA/ACA, 4/4/07-4/7/07)

updated: 
Wednesday, August 23, 2006 - 9:57pm
JewishStudiesPCA_at_aol.com

KIRK DOUGLAS
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The Jewish Studies Area of the Popular Culture Association is organizing at=20
least one panel on specifically evaluating the body of work by the=20
multi-talented Kirk Douglas for the 2007 conference of the ACA/PCA in Boston=
,=20
Massachusetts, April 4-7, 2007.
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Even after his severe stroke, Kirk Douglas has continued to be a force in=20
film and publishing. As an actor, he has starred in such important films as=
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Paths of Glory, Seven Days in May, and Spartacus, and starred on Broadway as=
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Randall McMurphy in the play adaptation of One Flew Over the Cuckoo=E2=80=
=99s Nest. As an=20

CFP: Interactions between Old and New in American Literatures (11/1/06; ACLA, 4/19/07-4/22/07)

updated: 
Wednesday, August 23, 2006 - 9:14pm
Claire Gallou

American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) Annual Meeting
April 19-22, 2007
Puebla, Mexico

http://acla2007.complit.ucla.edu/

The ACLA conference consists in seminars that gather 9 to 12 papers and meet
two or three times during the event. The following seminar invites papers
discussing any region and any literature of the Americas, North, Central, or
South.

When Inter-American Hitchhikers, Naturalized Migrants and Locals
Collide: Literary Intersections between Old and New in the Americas
from 1492 to the 21st Century.

CFP: Interactions between Old and New in American Literatures (11/1/06; ACLA, 4/19/07-4/22/07)

updated: 
Wednesday, August 23, 2006 - 9:14pm
Claire Gallou

American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) Annual Meeting
April 19-22, 2007
Puebla, Mexico

http://acla2007.complit.ucla.edu/

The ACLA conference consists in seminars that gather 9 to 12 papers and meet
two or three times during the event. The following seminar invites papers
discussing any region and any literature of the Americas, North, Central, or
South.

When Inter-American Hitchhikers, Naturalized Migrants and Locals
Collide: Literary Intersections between Old and New in the Americas
from 1492 to the 21st Century.

UPDATE: Edward R. Murrow (9/1/06; Film & History, 11/8/06-11/12/06)

updated: 
Wednesday, August 23, 2006 - 9:14pm
keith wheelock

Call for Papers -EXTENDED

2006 Film & History Conference on

THE DOCUMENTARY TRADITION

8-12 November, 2006

Dolce Conference Center-Dallas, Texas

www.filmandhistory.org

AREA: Edward R. Murrow

DEADLINE: September 1, 2006

We welcome a wide range of documentary-related presentations on Edward
R.

Murrow. Mr. Murrow, first on radio, then on television, established an
unrivalled

record for reportorial integrity. With See It Now, Murrow and Fred
Friendly initiated

television's investigative reporting. His Person to Person was also a
television first,

CFP: Locke and Matter (9/15/06; GEMCS, 2/22/07-2/25/07)

updated: 
Wednesday, August 23, 2006 - 9:14pm
wschmidg_at_artsci.wustl.edu

The Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies will hold its annual meeting
in Chicago early next year (2/22/07-2/25/07). We are looking for
contributions to the following panel:

LOCKE AND MATTER

UPDATE: Soviety Pioneer Filmmakers (9/10/06; Film & History, 11/8/06-11/12/06)

updated: 
Wednesday, August 23, 2006 - 9:13pm
julia kristanciuk

The deadline for papers and panel proposals has been extended to September 10, 2006.
   
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  2006 Conference: The Documentary Tradition,
  8 - 12 November, 2006
  Dolce Conference Center, Dallas, TX.
   
  The 2006 Film & History conference on THE DOCUMENTARY TRADITION is currently accepting paper abstracts and panel proposals on SOVIET PIONEER FILMMAKERS Dziga Vertov and Esther Shub.
   

CFP: Americana (10/15/06; journal issue)

updated: 
Wednesday, August 23, 2006 - 9:13pm
Editor_at_AmericanPopularCulture

Americana: The Institute for the Study of American Popular Culture
(1900-present) invites submissions to its journal Americana: The Journal of
American Popular Culture.

We encourage you to visit the journal at
http://www.americanpopularculture.com to see the kinds of material we are
interested in publishing.
 
If you would like to submit to the journal, send an explanatory email that
includes your institutional affiliation to
editor_at_americanpopularculture.com.

Attach the essay you would like to be considered to that email. Please make
sure your article conforms to the following guidelines:

CFP: Americana (10/15/06; journal issue)

updated: 
Wednesday, August 23, 2006 - 9:13pm
Editor_at_AmericanPopularCulture

Americana: The Institute for the Study of American Popular Culture
(1900-present) invites submissions to its journal Americana: The Journal of
American Popular Culture.

We encourage you to visit the journal at
http://www.americanpopularculture.com to see the kinds of material we are
interested in publishing.
 
If you would like to submit to the journal, send an explanatory email that
includes your institutional affiliation to
editor_at_americanpopularculture.com.

Attach the essay you would like to be considered to that email. Please make
sure your article conforms to the following guidelines:

CFP: Americana (10/15/06; journal issue)

updated: 
Wednesday, August 23, 2006 - 9:13pm
Editor_at_AmericanPopularCulture

Americana: The Institute for the Study of American Popular Culture
(1900-present) invites submissions to its journal Americana: The Journal of
American Popular Culture.

We encourage you to visit the journal at
http://www.americanpopularculture.com to see the kinds of material we are
interested in publishing.
 
If you would like to submit to the journal, send an explanatory email that
includes your institutional affiliation to
editor_at_americanpopularculture.com.

Attach the essay you would like to be considered to that email. Please make
sure your article conforms to the following guidelines:

CFP: Comics Arts Conference-Wonder Con (10/15/06; 3/2/07-3/4/07)

updated: 
Wednesday, August 23, 2006 - 9:13pm
Peter Coogan

Call for Papers and Participation

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COMICS ARTS CONFERENCE-WONDER CON

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The Comics Arts Conference is expanding! Abstracts for papers, panels, =
poster sessions, and slide talks are being accepted for a for a joint =
meeting of scholars and professionals during=20

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Wonder Con

San Francisco, California March 2-4, 2007.

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We seek proposals from a broad range of disciplinary and theoretical =
perspectives, and welcome the participation of academic, independent, =
and fan scholars. We welcome professionals from all areas of the comics =
industry, including creators, editors, publishers, retailers, =
distributors, and journalists. =20

CFP: Comics Arts Conference-Wonder Con (10/15/06; 3/2/07-3/4/07)

updated: 
Wednesday, August 23, 2006 - 9:13pm
Peter Coogan

Call for Papers and Participation

=20

=20

COMICS ARTS CONFERENCE-WONDER CON

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The Comics Arts Conference is expanding! Abstracts for papers, panels, =
poster sessions, and slide talks are being accepted for a for a joint =
meeting of scholars and professionals during=20

=20

Wonder Con

San Francisco, California March 2-4, 2007.

=20

We seek proposals from a broad range of disciplinary and theoretical =
perspectives, and welcome the participation of academic, independent, =
and fan scholars. We welcome professionals from all areas of the comics =
industry, including creators, editors, publishers, retailers, =
distributors, and journalists. =20

CFP: Media and the End of the World (11/10/06; 4/13/07-4/14/07)

updated: 
Wednesday, August 23, 2006 - 9:13pm
Kylo Hart

Call for Papers: Apocalypse Now? Media and the End of the World Conference

We invite panel and individual-paper proposals for the "Apocalypse Now?
Media and the End of the World Conference," to be held at Plymouth
State University (Plymouth, New Hampshire) April 13-14, 2007.

The members of the conference committee are seeking contributions that
explore noteworthy coverage patterns, representations and themes, in
various media forms, pertaining to the longstanding idea of the end of
the world. Participants are encouraged to interpret the conference
theme broadly and innovatively. Individual presentations will be
limited to 20 minutes in length.

CFP: Media and the End of the World (11/10/06; 4/13/07-4/14/07)

updated: 
Wednesday, August 23, 2006 - 9:13pm
Kylo Hart

Call for Papers: Apocalypse Now? Media and the End of the World Conference

We invite panel and individual-paper proposals for the "Apocalypse Now?
Media and the End of the World Conference," to be held at Plymouth
State University (Plymouth, New Hampshire) April 13-14, 2007.

The members of the conference committee are seeking contributions that
explore noteworthy coverage patterns, representations and themes, in
various media forms, pertaining to the longstanding idea of the end of
the world. Participants are encouraged to interpret the conference
theme broadly and innovatively. Individual presentations will be
limited to 20 minutes in length.

CFP: Media and the End of the World (11/10/06; 4/13/07-4/14/07)

updated: 
Wednesday, August 23, 2006 - 9:13pm
Kylo Hart

Call for Papers: Apocalypse Now? Media and the End of the World Conference

We invite panel and individual-paper proposals for the "Apocalypse Now?
Media and the End of the World Conference," to be held at Plymouth
State University (Plymouth, New Hampshire) April 13-14, 2007.

The members of the conference committee are seeking contributions that
explore noteworthy coverage patterns, representations and themes, in
various media forms, pertaining to the longstanding idea of the end of
the world. Participants are encouraged to interpret the conference
theme broadly and innovatively. Individual presentations will be
limited to 20 minutes in length.

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